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Operations and Supply Chain
Communication, Journalism & Media Studies Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: early Sep 2025 - mid Dec 2025
Operations and Supply Chain
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Supply Chain Management
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 17629
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 200
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: Principles of business administration, Basics Of Information Technologies, Basics of Statistics, Principles of Accounting, Programming for Business
DESCRIPTION
1.Operations management (OM)
· What is OM
· Why study OM?
· Ethics, responsibility and sustainability
· OM Goals
2. Supply Chain Management
· Main elements
· SC Risks
· Logistics decisions
· Performance measurement
3. Operations and supply chain strategies
· Definitions and main features
· Most important strategies and their relations with the corporate strategy
· Hot to formulate, implement and control
· Sustainability and ethics
4. Design of goods and services
· Stages in the development of new goods and services
· Documents for manufacturing
· Computer aided design and 3D printing and manufacturing
· Quality of Design
5. Design of processes
· Process strategies
· Design and Analysis of manufacturing and service processes
· Design of capacity and bottlenecks
· Process quality
6. Aggregate Planning
· Sales and manufacturing Forecasting
· Main elements
· Planning methods
· Performance measurement
7. Agile and lean operations and JIT
· JIT approach
· Lean approach
· Agility and flexibility
· What is OM
· Why study OM?
· Ethics, responsibility and sustainability
· OM Goals
2. Supply Chain Management
· Main elements
· SC Risks
· Logistics decisions
· Performance measurement
3. Operations and supply chain strategies
· Definitions and main features
· Most important strategies and their relations with the corporate strategy
· Hot to formulate, implement and control
· Sustainability and ethics
4. Design of goods and services
· Stages in the development of new goods and services
· Documents for manufacturing
· Computer aided design and 3D printing and manufacturing
· Quality of Design
5. Design of processes
· Process strategies
· Design and Analysis of manufacturing and service processes
· Design of capacity and bottlenecks
· Process quality
6. Aggregate Planning
· Sales and manufacturing Forecasting
· Main elements
· Planning methods
· Performance measurement
7. Agile and lean operations and JIT
· JIT approach
· Lean approach
· Agility and flexibility